He may live for a few hours--scarcely the night." Stanton moved to the foot of the bed like one in a dream.

He saw that Barnes, the Surgeon-General, sat on a deal chair on the left side, holding the dying man's hand.

Dr.Gurley, the minister, sat beside the bed.

He noted Sumner and Welles and General Halleck and Governor Dennison, and back in the gloom the young Robert Lincoln.

But he observed them only as he would have observed figures in a picture.